Halloween 2012

The Gang

We are just starting to get to the point where we can start pushing Tova's bed time if we want to do something fun in the evening.  Hindsight says perhaps we are not quite there (see previous post which is likely the result of this late night (6pm) excursion).  I decided we must continue the tradition of going over to our friend's the Burgess's house to eat pizza, trick-or-treat and watch Charlie Brown and the Great Pumpkin.  Thankfully, the rain stopped for the out door portion of the evening and Tova slept most of the time we were out.  We had a great time and are making some really fun memories.

Tova's first Halloween trick-or-treating adventure

Charlie leading the procession - The men prepared with their hot toddies

We may need to watch these two in the future

Our little Ghost and Mickey Mouse

Deven got so tired he was practically begging us to take him back to the house

Tova dress up for school in he morning

Cute little elephant

Deven ready for his school party

We made Deven's costume!  Gold star for us!!!

Deven's First Trick-or-Treating Adventure

I don't really remember Halloween that well from when I was trick-or-treating age. Maybe it just wasn't that big of deal? Either way right now, it is a huge deal to Deven. The lead up to Halloween was a month long process...I even had to hide his costume from him when it came in the mail to ensure it would still be in tact for the big day. Deven was, of course, a fireman. We did it right with new fire boots, pants, jacket and helmet. Underneath he even had on his fireman pj's. It was epic. We were invited to spend the evening with our friends Renee and Chip Burgess. Their little guy Charlie is the same age as Deven and was equally as thrilled to go door-to-door for free candy. Renee is an aspiring Martha Stewart (pre-insider trading) and decorated so well. She even had labeled appetizers: grapes were eye balls and pretzel sticks were goblin bones. It's her dream to have a walk through haunted house some day. I am anticipating that we will spend many more Halloween's with the Burgess family!!

We captured the boys' first trick-or-treat. Awesome. Other fun moments was Deven's 'eye ball' belch into a nice ladies face as she was handing him some candy..."Excuse me, I burped." Then upon a nice old man opening the door for the boys Charlie felt right at home and walked right in...we were thinking he just wanted to be more social then trick-or-treating allowed. He is quite the gentleman. We had such a great time and ended the night with a pizza, "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown", and a little Monday night football. A perfect first Halloween night out for Deven and Charlie!!!

Pumpkin Patching

We had an early morning trip to Bob's Corn Farm. Now that I am linking to the website I see the farm was not actually open until 10am. Whoops - we got there around 9:30. Thankfully everyone there was super nice and didn't make us leave!! We made the trip with our friends Chip, Renee and their little man Charlie. The boys lasted about an hour, which was pretty awesome given the temperature this morning. Deven was so cold when we left his hand were bright red. I need to do some hunting for some little man gloves! Anyway, before the cold set in Deven was having a blast picking out pumpkins, rolling around in the mud and playing on the huge tractor. Good fall fun!